72 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



Apr. 12-19. Mr. Pope, in New York, read a paper entitled "An Example of the 

 Unreliability of Chinese Texts on Ceramics," at a meeting of the 

 Art and Archaeology Section of the American Oriental Society. 



Apr. 25. On the invitation of the Iranian Government, Dr. Ettinghausen, 



as a representative of the Smithsonian Institution, attended the 

 celebrations in honor of the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of 

 the great Iranian philosopher and physician Abu Ibn Sina, liuown 

 in the West under the name of Avieenna. The ceremonies were 

 held in Hamadan, Iran. In Iran he was studying private collec- 

 tions and museums as the year ended. 



June 4. Mr. Pope was in Europe to attend the International Exhibition of 



Chinese Art held at Venice in celebration of the 700th anniversary 

 of the birth of Marco Polo. He also visited the exhibition of 

 Asiatic Art held in the Mus^e Cernuschi, Paris, in memory of 

 Ren6 Grousset. He examined objects in museums and private 

 collections and conferred with scholars in London, Paris, and 

 Brussels. 



In addition, 5 members of the staff made a total of 13 otlier trips 

 outside of Washington on official business. 



Members of the staff held honorary posts and undertook additional 

 duties outside the Gallery as follows : 



Mr, Wenley : Member, Visiting Committee, Dumbarton Oaks Research 



Library and Collection. 



Research professor of Oriental Art, Department of Fine 

 Arts, University of Michigan. 



Member, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at "Wash- 

 ington, D. C, for the Smithsonian Institution. 



Member, Board of Trustees, Textile Museum, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Member, Board of Trustees, Hermitage Foundation, Nor- 

 folk, Va. 



Member, Council of the Far Eastern Ceramic Group. 



Member, Smithsonian Art Commission. 



Member, consultative committee, Ars Orlentalis. 



Chairman of the Louise Wallace Hackney Scholarship Com- 

 mittee of the American Oriental Society. 



Member of the House Committee, Cosmos Club, Washington, 

 D, C. 

 Mr. Pope : President, Far Eastern Ceramic Group. 



Art Editor, Far Eastern Quarterly. 



Member, Editorial Board, Archives of the Chinese Art Society 

 of America. 



Member, Board of Governors, Washington Society, Archeo- 

 logical Institute of America. 



American member. Consultative Committee for the Interna- 

 tional Exhibition of Chinese Art held at Venice in connec- 

 tion with the celeb i-ation of the 700th anniversary of the 

 birth of Marco Polo. 



President, Association of the Southern Alumni of the Phillips 

 Exeter Academy. 



